Excerpt from Robert Merry's Museum, 1850, Vol. 19 I know nothing that gives me more pleasure than to watch these birds feed ing their young. 'if by chance you get near their nest, they suffer you to look at them, but keep their little black eyes upon you as if they would read your counts nance, and discover whether you are friendly or inimical to them. The young open their wide mouths, devouring the worms and insects with great avidity. The parent birds look at them with de light, apparently charmed at their hearty appetites, and never murmuring at the quantity they are obliged to provide for them. When the young begin to fly, the old birds are in a perfect state of ecstasy, and flutter about and sing to express their approbation. If the young hesitate, and seem to fear to launch forth upon their wings, the old birds set the example by little flights, urging their children to imitate them. It was always a wonder to me to see boys robbing birds' nests. It cannot give them any real pleasure, and even if it did, the agony of the parent birds should be a great alloy. The schoolboy, prob ably, never thinks how dreadfully his par ents would feel if he were stolen away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.